Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://redwagonphotography.ca.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

Any personal data that is captured when a contact form is submitted will only be used for contacting the submitter for the requested purpose. Contact Form Submissions are kept securely in redwagon’s Studio Management Software for customer service purposes, but the information is never used for marketing purposes without the permission of the client.

Yummy Light Café Subscriptions

Personal data collected when you subscribe to The Yummy Light Café is stored securely by the email marketing company, Mailer Lite. View their Privacy Policy here.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

The redwagon photography website uses a third party plug-in (StatCounter) to track visits to the site.

  • When a visitor requests pages from the site, StatCounter’s Web servers automatically log the browser’s domain name, and IP address. This information is collected solely for statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.
  • Personally identifiable information such as visitor’s name, telephone number, postal address and email address are technically impossible for StatCounter to collect and no attempt is made to do so. The information that is recorded consists of the date and time of visit, ip address, browser (e.g. Firefox 3.5), operating system version (e.g. Windows XP), screen resolution (e.g. 800×600), referring link, the current page url and the current page title.
  • To enable StatCounter.com to track whether a visitor has been to a website before (i.e. a first-time or returning visitor) a cookie is sent to the visitors’ computer. This information is collected solely to for statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.

View the full Stat Counter Privacy Policy here.

Who we share your data with

redwagon photography uses Studio Management Software for Client Inquires Appointment Schedules and workflow. View the 17hats Privacy Policy here.

Your data is NEVER shared with a third party for Marketing purposes.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Analytics records are kept for 3 months, Contact Form Entries are kept for one year, and customer purchase records are kept indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this site, or completed a Contact Form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Your data is help with in Studio Management Software: 17Hats and through redwagon photography’s webhost: HostPapa.

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service:
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Jamie O’Quinn
redwagon photography
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

jamie@redwagonphotography.ca